Between the Lines: McCain Adviser’s Link to Olmert Scandal

Unmentioned in the New York Times’s illuminating story about McCain adviser Rick Davis’s lobbying activity are the recent revelations about his onetime client, ImageSat.

Davis’s firm, Davis Manafort, received $120,000 to lobby for Imagesat, an Israeli company which sells satellite imagery, on both defense and domestic security issues in 2004 and 2005.

Imagesat has been in the headlines recently because one of its investors was Morris Talansky, the New York businessman who allegedly gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.

Olmert reportedly assisted Imagesat, at Talansky’s request, by asking an Israeli diplomat in Venezuela to help the company sell its spy-satellite services to Hugo Chavez’s government.

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